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conceptual design of vtol platforms
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Set-up tips on running BEMT and FEA high fidelity models #3

Closed johnZYW closed 3 years ago

johnZYW commented 3 years ago

Hi Hydra Developer @nenanth,

I have been using your code for a while now and i think its great, so thanks for making it open-source.

At the moment, i am trying to model the small 20lbs eVTOL vehicle as demonstrated in your paper A Scalability Study of the Multirotor Biplane Tailsitter Using Conceptual Sizing. With the current fidelity, i am getting much higher weight estimate for fuselage and battery, so i think i may need to use FEA and BEMT to get better estimate for the overall weight.

I see that FEA and BEMT source code is inside the src source folder but they are currently not set-up in the routine. Is it possible that you can share a template or give some hints on how to set them up properly? Thank you.

Yuwen

nenanth commented 3 years ago

Hi Yuwen Unfortunately that functionality is broken. It's not trivial to get it working with this version of the code.. there's no easy fix

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 7:53 PM johnZYW notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Hydra Developer @nenanth https://github.com/nenanth,

I have been using your code for a while now and i think its great, so thanks for making it open-source.

At the moment, i am trying to model the small 20lbs eVTOL vehicle as demonstrated in your paper A Scalability Study of the Multirotor Biplane Tailsitter Using Conceptual Sizing. With the current fidelity, i am getting much higher weight estimate for fuselage and battery, so i think i may need to use FEA and BEMT to get better estimate for the overall weight.

I see that FEA and BEMT source code is inside the src source folder but they are currently not set-up in the routine. Is it possible that you can share a template or give some hints on how to set them up properly? Thank you.

Yuwen

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johnZYW commented 3 years ago

Hi Hydra Developer @nenanth,

Ohh, its ok, i will see if i can extend the code to include external code if possible. Thanks for the info anyway.

Yuwen